Georgia's role in the Ventures Team involves managing Barn4's various social media channels and developing the website, alongside supporting the organisation's day-to-day running. Georgia is involved in various other teams at NIAB, which will vary from working with the Communications Team to more practically in the glasshouses.
Georgia has a MA (Hons) in Management and Psychology from the University of St Andrews.
Noémie's research project is looking at changes of the African eggplant growth under drought, high temperature, and salinity, alone or in combination, and how to limit their negative impacts. She is also interested in the nutritional quality of the plant.
Prior coming to NIAB East Malling, she completed her BSc in Life Sciences and Engineering at EPFL (Switzerland) and a MSc in Biotechnology at Imperial College London.
Andrea is working on Bacterial canker disease on sweet cherry (Prunus avium, L.) caused by some pathovars in the Pseudomonas syringae species complex. Mainly, focusing on elucidating the importance of effector proteins and phytotoxins for Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae pathogenicity. She has a strong interest in molecular plant-pathogen interactions and how they evolve over time.
Part of the Crop Science and Production Systems team at NIAB EMR Matteo's research inludes pest and disease control in soft fruit and organic farming systems.
William's role includes setting up experimental areas, both at NIAB EMR and on commercial grower trials, and installing sensor/loggers for precision growing.
David is a second year PhD student, under the SoCoBio DTP programme, whose current research focuses on understanding and improving the nutritional quality of fruit and vegetable, within the wider context of improving food system sustainability and micronutrient security.
He is particularly interested in the application of stress conditioning as a means of increasing nutrient accumulation in strawberry, as well as subsequent associations between nutritional quality and crop tolerance of pre- and post-harvest stresses.
Katie has worked at East Malling as a strawberry breeder since 2016, including developing new varieties under the East Malling Strawberry Breeding Club (EMSBC) initiative and for Malling Fruits. The focus of the programme is genetic improvement and varietal development of the cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa).
Sharon provides technical support to the strawberry breeding team with field, glasshouse and laboratory based work
